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United States Patent | 5,505,455 |
Kamrath ,   et al. | April 9, 1996 |
A board game which contains a plurality of tokens that are moved among various slots of a board. The tokens may fall through some of the slots and disappear from the game. The board game includes a first board that has a plurality of slots. The slots are arranged in a number of rows and columns. Each row corresponds to a game space. Each game space has one or more slots. The players take turns spinning a dial and moving a token a number of game spaces along the board. The player may insert the token into any unoccupied slot of the game space. Located below the first board is a second board that can support the tokens. The tokens are supported so that are a portion of the tokens extend above the first board. The second board has a plurality of openings that arranged in an irregular pattern and located adjacent to a number of slots. If the player selects a slot adjacent to an opening, the token falls through the slot and disappears from the game. The second board can be repositioned to vary the location of the openings.
Inventors: | Kamrath; Richard (Lomita, CA); Foster; George (Signal Hill, CA) |
Assignee: | Rudell; Elliot A. (Torrance, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 508843 |
Filed: | July 28, 1995 |
Current U.S. Class: | 273/248; 273/284 |
Intern'l Class: | A63F 003/00 |
Field of Search: | 273/236,242,243,248,249,280,287,284 |
3709497 | Jan., 1973 | Barlow | 273/284. |
3814434 | Jun., 1974 | Robinson | 273/287. |
3865381 | Feb., 1975 | Hayes | 273/280. |
4422644 | Dec., 1983 | Holahan et al. | 273/280. |
4779874 | Oct., 1988 | Dykstra | 273/287. |
5201524 | Apr., 1993 | Csanady | 273/284. |